OK------Here is the bottom line. Most of you who have made it this far have completed the first assessment project. It is now time for round two! I have made some minor changes which should make things easier for you. The biggest change is the summary. Instead of the summary you will be required to keep track of your progress in a journal. I will be in regular touch with your site coordinators to make sure you are really doing what you say you are doing. Your projects will be completed at school under the supervision of your site coordinators. I have provided you with 7 class periods to complete this project. I EXPECT it to get completed in that amount of time. I will know where work is done based on the location of the computer you use and the time you are working on your assignments. If you cannot complete this project within the timeframe then we will work something out with your site coordinator. YOU ARE NOT TO WORK ON THIS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL unless you clear it with me first. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Here are the steps you need to follow to make this go very smoothly. Do things in this order and you will be fine. Do not call and ask for help if you stray from this plan. I will help you, but not if you refuse to follow directions.
Look at the list of topics and pick one.
Open a GoogleDoc and call it "Your Name.......Journal" (Fill in your name in place of "your name") Share it with me as a collaborator and link to it on your page immediately. As you make daily updates I will see them. All I want is for you to write the date and what you accomplished that day. It does not have to be lengthy. For example, it might say "November 4: Found 5 great sites. Bookmarked them. Looked at 3 of them closely. Will read the other 2 tomorrow." I will check your times in the history. Make sure you are ONLY working on this assignment at school during YOUR scheduled time.
Go to your page on this wiki and create a nice, catchy title.
Do you see all of the headings below that are highlighted in lavender? Create those on your page in the same order that they appear in this example. If you are smart you have already figured out that you can copy and paste from here if you have two tabs open: one will be this page the other will be YOUR wiki page. You can copy then toggle to the other page and paste. Very easy.
Find 4 or 5 websites that deal with your topic. WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT COUNT. (Yes, you only need to evaluate 3, but this will insure you have enough in case one of them is awful.) Please BOOKMARK them so you can find them again. Use a web based bookmarking site such as Google Reader to keep track of your sites. (Copy the URL, sign in to Google, go to the Reader, paste the url into the subscriptions box)
Create THREE different copies of the website evaluation forms. You can copy the same one three times as long as each one has an original name. I suggest project 2 eval 1, project 2 eval 2, and project 2 eval 3. PUBLISH immediately after you create them. Your changes will show up as you do them. Some of you never did bother to do this last time and it cost you a HUGE number of points.
Write out a report on your topic in GoogleDocs and share it with me as a collaborator. It MUST be in your own words and it needs to flow like a story. It needs to be approximately 300 words in length.
After you have written your "report" you will need to divide it up over approximately 15-20 slides. Go to PowerPoint and pick the layout that allows text on one side and an image on the other. DO NOT INCLUDE TITLES ON EACH SLIDE.
Go back into your slide show and add images.Once you are done you will upload it to GoogleDocs just like you did last time. Embed the show on your page in the wiki under the appropriate heading.
Make sure you cite EVERY source in the references at the bottom of your page in the wiki. Remember that you can (and should) use sites that you did not evaluate. All you have to do is add their URL to the list at the bottom of the page.
Anything you do that is done outside of school will NOT count unless you have made arrangements with me ahead of time. I will be monitoring this project very closely as will your site coordinators.
Example of Assessment Format
Click here to listen to voice recording of the assessment directions.
Catchy Title
(make it big and bold so it stands out)
Thesis/Objective Statement: This is a one-sentence long statement that sums up what you will be researching and reporting on for this unit. "This project is going to explain..........." or "The purpose of this project is to increase your understanding of....." Something along these lines. Website Evaluations: (Copy and paste the template that I provided for you in the Moodle class into a NEW GoogleDoc. Name it Website Evaluation: name of the website (Fill in the name of the website!!!!) Do this for all three sites. Fill in the table on the form as you navigate the site. The purpose is to evaluate it for its usefulness and validity.
Slideshow: Create a slideshow with 12-20 images. CREATE THIS IN POWERPOINT. When you are finished you will "upload" it to Google Presentation and "embed" it here. Here is how you do this.
1. Create your show in PowerPoint
2. Upload it in GoogleDocs. (Make sure you remember what you named it!)
3. "Publish" the presentation. Copy the embed code in the box at the bottom of the page.
4. Go into your page in the wiki and click the Embed Widget (Blue box---looks like old TV)
5. Select the option for "Other HTML" (Last option on the page)
6.Paste the code in this box and click "save." Make sure you save the actual wiki page as well! (Don't just "save the draft!) *The slideshow will not show up until you save the page. It will only show a gray box that says "media." Don't panic. It is there.
Congratulations....you have just published a slide show to the web!
Additional Multimedia
This is where you can add audio clips, videos, and other websites that you think are interesting.
Journal (formerly the summary)
Link to journal here.
Create a journal. Keep track of your progress EVERY DAY! I will follow the history of the document to make sure you do this.
References (All links need to be "hot." To do this simply paste the url, highlight it, click the Insert Link icon, select the external link bubble, and paste the url in the box and save.
Link to the 1st website you reviewed (Should look like www.nameofwebsite.com)
Link to 2nd website you reviewed
Link to 3rd site you reviewed
Link to other websites where you got information, images (Depending on how many sources you used beyond the three you evaluated you may or may not need to add additional references.)
OK------Here is the bottom line. Most of you who have made it this far have completed the first assessment project. It is now time for round two! I have made some minor changes which should make things easier for you. The biggest change is the summary. Instead of the summary you will be required to keep track of your progress in a journal. I will be in regular touch with your site coordinators to make sure you are really doing what you say you are doing. Your projects will be completed at school under the supervision of your site coordinators. I have provided you with 7 class periods to complete this project. I EXPECT it to get completed in that amount of time. I will know where work is done based on the location of the computer you use and the time you are working on your assignments. If you cannot complete this project within the timeframe then we will work something out with your site coordinator. YOU ARE NOT TO WORK ON THIS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL unless you clear it with me first. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Here are the steps you need to follow to make this go very smoothly. Do things in this order and you will be fine. Do not call and ask for help if you stray from this plan. I will help you, but not if you refuse to follow directions.
Example of Assessment Format
Click here to listen to voice recording of the assessment directions.
Catchy Title
(make it big and bold so it stands out)
Thesis/Objective Statement: This is a one-sentence long statement that sums up what you will be researching and reporting on for this unit. "This project is going to explain..........." or "The purpose of this project is to increase your understanding of....." Something along these lines.
Website Evaluations : (Copy and paste the template that I provided for you in the Moodle class into a NEW GoogleDoc. Name it Website Evaluation: name of the website (Fill in the name of the website!!!!) Do this for all three sites. Fill in the table on the form as you navigate the site. The purpose is to evaluate it for its usefulness and validity.
Slideshow: Create a slideshow with 12-20 images. CREATE THIS IN POWERPOINT. When you are finished you will "upload" it to Google Presentation and "embed" it here. Here is how you do this.
1. Create your show in PowerPoint
2. Upload it in GoogleDocs. (Make sure you remember what you named it!)
3. "Publish" the presentation. Copy the embed code in the box at the bottom of the page.
4. Go into your page in the wiki and click the Embed Widget (Blue box---looks like old TV)
5. Select the option for "Other HTML" (Last option on the page)
6.Paste the code in this box and click "save." Make sure you save the actual wiki page as well! (Don't just "save the draft!) *The slideshow will not show up until you save the page. It will only show a gray box that says "media." Don't panic. It is there.
Congratulations....you have just published a slide show to the web!
Additional Multimedia
This is where you can add audio clips, videos, and other websites that you think are interesting.
Journal (formerly the summary)
- Link to journal here.
Create a journal. Keep track of your progress EVERY DAY! I will follow the history of the document to make sure you do this.References (All links need to be "hot." To do this simply paste the url, highlight it, click the Insert Link icon, select the external link bubble, and paste the url in the box and save.